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November 17, 2018December 13, 2018Insights
Georgia O’Keeffe on the Art of Seeing
"To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."
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November 13, 2018December 13, 2018Insights
The Puzzle We Call Being: Walt Whitman on Listening to the Song of Existence, Animated
"Now I will do nothing but listen, / To accrue what I hear into this song..."
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RIP Stan Lee: What 20 Years of Lunches With the Comics Legend Taught Me
From his love of the Cheesecake Factory to his take on religion, writer Jim McLauchlin looks back on two decades of conversations with the Marvel Comics chairman emeritus.
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October 31, 2018December 13, 2018Off-Topic
A group of ‘witches’ went paddleboarding, and the photos are delightful
Onlookers were caught by surprise on Saturday when hundreds of "witches" breezed past them on brooms paddleboards, according to Oregon Live.
The floating coven turned heads as men and women dressed up in full witch and warlock attire paddled along the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon for the Stand Up...
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October 17, 2018December 13, 2018Insights
The Dalai Lama on Science and Spirituality
"What science finds to be nonexistent we should all accept as nonexistent, but what science merely does not find is a completely different matter."
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October 12, 2018December 10, 2018Off-Topic
The tiny Indonesian village where dancing is a social currency
On the shores of Indonesia’s third largest lake, a travel writer and photographer find out that a little dancing can go a very long way with the local indigenous people. “C’mon, try it again: One and two and three and four, one and two and three and four, right foot, left foot.” Annie, an Indonesian […]
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October 12, 2018December 13, 2018Insights
The Mesmerizing Microscopy of Trees: Otherworldly Images Revealing the Cellular Structure of Wood Specimens
Stunning images that occupy the lacuna between art and science.
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October 4, 2018December 13, 2018Insights
Anton Chekhov’s 6 Rules for a Great Story
Mastering the essential complementarity of compassion and total objectivity.
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October 2, 2018October 31, 2018Off-Topic
Judge Dredd co-creator Carlos Ezquerra dies aged 70
The Spanish comic book artist, who illustrated many 2000AD comics and designed the iconic lawman Dredd, has died after a lung cancer diagnosis Carlos Ezquerra, the legendary Spanish artist who co-created Judge Dredd for 2000AD and gave the futuristic lawman his distinctive look, has died at the age of 70.Ezquerra, who...